1st Edition
Climate Action and Civil Society in Turkey and Germany Contested Common Ground
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction: Climate politics, power relations, and the idea of the common ground
Introduction
1.1 Common ground for the climate
1.2 Conceptualizing the common ground
1.3 Economic growth and the politics of the climate
1.4 Case selection
1.4.1 Turkey: Climate politics in the context of a “coal rush”
1.4.2 Germany: The paradox of climate leadership with coal dependency
1.5 Methodology
1.6 Overview of the chapters
Chapter 2 Making of the common ground
Introduction
2.1 Are local struggles necessarily NIMBY?
2.2 Moving away from consensus
2.2.1 Consensus and depoliticization
2.2.2 Repoliticization
2.2.3 Contestations
2.3 Moving away from universalism
2.4 The climate common ground in authoritarian and democratic political contexts
2.4.1 Implications of increasing authoritarianism for environmental civil society
2.4.2 Insufficiency of climate response under democratic regimes
Chapter 3 The role of civil society in building the climate common ground
Introduction
3.1 A translocal common ground: “Break Free from Fossil Fuels” 2016 in Turkey
3.2 Engaging with Others
3.2.1 Local, national, and transnational interactions in Turkey
3.2.2 Local, national, and transnational interactions in Germany
3.2.3 Comparing climate networks in Turkey and Germany
3.3 Frames constitutive of the common ground
3.3.1 Ending coal
3.3.2 Climate justice
3.3.3 Paris Agreement
3.4 Contestations
3.4.1 Employment concerns
3.4.2 Economic growth paradigm as cleavage
3.4.3 Differences in organizational priorities and tactics
Chapter 4 The political context in Turkey and Germany
Introduction
4.1 How the state relates to civil society: cooperation, cooptation, and conflict
4.2 State and the environmental civil society in Turkey
4.2.1 Conflict with an exclusionary state
4.2.2 Cooperation and conflict with an exclusionary state
4.2.3 Conflict and cooptation under an exclusionary and coercive state
4.3 State and the environmental civil society in Germany
4.3.1 Conflict with an exclusionary state
4.3.2 Cooperation and conflict with an inclusionary state
4.4 States and climate protection: Depoliticization as a political strategy of the state
4.4.1 Depoliticization in authoritarian political contexts
4.4.2 Depoliticization under open contestation
Chapter 5 Transformative climate politics
5.1 Sources and strategies of power of the state in climate politics
5.2 Pathways of hegemony into civil society
5.3 How useful are sweeping dichotomies?
5.4 What does the common ground offer climate politics?
Appendix
Biography
Hande Paker is a political sociologist who works on the politics of climate and the environment, civil society, state, cosmopolitan citizenship, and political ecology. Her articles have appeared in various edited volumes and international journals such as Environmental Politics, Theory and Society, Voluntas, and Middle Eastern Studies. She was previously a senior research fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at Duisburg-Essen University, Mercator-IPC fellow at Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University; a visiting scholar at CliSAP, Hamburg University, and an associate professor at Bahcesehir University. Hande Paker holds a PhD from McGill University, Canada. She received her MA from McGill University as well and her BA from Boğaziçi University, Turkey.
